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Reputation: 355

Date time format with TZ specfied with datetime in R( ISO 8601 )

I need to get current time in R in this particular format:

2014-01-07T14:57:55+05:30

Sys.time() seems to return in a different format than this. How do I exactly get this ?

Link to the format : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1315

Answers (2)

and-bri
and-bri

Reputation: 1664

Is this what your looking for?

format(Sys.time(), format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+01:00")
format(Sys.time(), format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%z")

The meaning of the letters you find a the documentation of strptime() function

Upvotes: 1

varontron
varontron

Reputation: 1157

The function for converting/formatting a time string is as.POSIXct or as.POSIXlt. The documentation for these points to the docs for strptime for format symbols. This reference indicates %F is the correct symbol for ISO-8601 however, implementing that results in a format different from what you suggest.

> as.POSIXct(Sys.time(),format="%F")
[1] "2016-10-02 18:57:58 EDT"

I suspect looking at strptime you will find the combination necessary to output the exact format you need.

Upvotes: 2

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